I have been working on societal impacts of language technology since late 2016, and my nightmare example since pretty early on has been using automatic transcription in emergency services systems. And today I learn it's happening *in my own city* www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news... Short 🧵>>

when you say "shocking", how does "they're using curtains at a florida resort as a makeshift SCIF and they let everyone have their phones in it" fit into this

These are the 30 women killed since 2020 in Northern Ireland, all by white men 21 killed in their homes by men they knew. The youngest 20, the oldest 82 21 were mothers, 4 were killed with their children in the home. Two were pregnant Nobody rioted over their murders www.bbc.com/news/article...

Illiteracy and a lack of interest in challenging one's self is not an accessibility issue except in its connection to lack of access to decent education.

Buttigieg: We sit in a in a country that's got the wrong number of people on the Supreme Court, possibly the wrong number of representatives in the House of Representatives. And by the way, when you consider the disenfranchisement of the people of DC, we have the wrong number of states in the US

⚡️ 'We're modern people' — Zelensky backs open discussion of LGBTQ+ rights in Ukraine. "We are all here together, we are defending the state, we are the same and we have absolutely the same rights, regardless of any prejudices held by people from the 15th century," President Volodymyr Zelensky said.

Vance Boelter pleaded guilty Thursday to the murder of former state Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark Hortman, and the shootings of state Sen. John Hoffman and his wife Yvette Hoffman. From @minnesotareformer.com: https://bit.ly/4vOaOnj

I’m a pretty cynical person, yet I never thought I’d live to see a post-Jim Crow American political party take the position that “racist pogroms are good actually.”

Last time Congress messed with the number of SCOTUS seats wasn’t over mundane policy disputes in normal cases. It was to defend Reconstruction, the settlement of a literal civil war, from any Johnson appointments. It’s not flippant hyperbole when we describe the post-Trump agenda as Reconstruction.

Just a disgusting, inhuman way to talk about war. We must never get used to this

The global far right led by highly online white nationalists like Elon Musk has had its Kristallnacht moment, producing images that shock the conscience. How will the world respond?

Trump's war has wiped out an entire year and a half of wage growth

The U.S. cattle herd is at its lowest level in 75 years. It was already being battered by drought and Trump's unpredictable on-off-on tariffs. Most countries in the world have lost interest in American beef due to tariffs, deregulation, and fewer inspectors. Now we get a horrific parasite …

The funding “clears the way for the Trump adminstration to continue its immigration crackdown until just a few months before his second term is scheduled to end.” So-called Republican moderates like Reps. María Elvira Salazar, David Valadao, and Juan Ciscomani will own the state abuses to come.

This is asinine and betrays Khanna's complete lack of understanding of the conservative movement's intentional strategy of lying about elections in order to destroy democracy. There are ways to improve CA vote counting but the current system does not "spawn conspiracy theories." Liars lie.

A new USPS rule created to carry out Trump’s plans to restrict mail-in voting is an “unconstitutional attack,” the American Postal Workers Union (APWU) said. Congress created the USPS as an independent entity from the White House, the union says. https://bit.ly/4v0an9x

Palm Beach police chief, who led initial efforts to unravel Epstein's human trafficking operations and pressed for his prosecution, spills the beans on George W Bush's Justice Department, which was determined to protect Epstein from prosecution and insisted that he was an intelligence asset.

lol

So what I'm getting from this article is that some people leave red areas due to real life threats to their safety & some people leave blue areas because of something make-believe they saw on tv & also so they can say the n word in public without looking around first but they pretend its about taxes

the best evidence for voter fraud is ... that there is no evidence of fraud!

This weekend is Canyon County Pride's 3rd year. It's a rural Pride event that started AFTER the anti-trans cultural moment was manufactured. It's a small flame out in the rain, but it's a light. You should go if you can. You should support rural Idaho queerness.

One of the reasons i really think Talarico needs to win is to provide a counterweight to the narrative that dems have to run Platners to win

This is bad. At least 9 county prosecutors in pro-Trump areas of Virginia have now openly declared that they won't enforce the assault weapons ban that the Dem state legislature recently passed. It's a MAGA nullification movement. New piece from me: newrepublic.com/article/2114...

GEO Group, a private prison company, signed a contract to give ICE use of Delaney Hall and “support services” like security, maintenance, food services, etc. in exchange for over $60 mil/yr But it is the detainees—not GEO Group—who actually do that work, for free ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

Since the WSJ editorial board mentioned my earlier post about Justice Alito’s son, I’m happy to reply. Pointing out that his son works for an agency whose interests may come before the Supreme Court is not harassment. It is basic transparency.

I thought people were kidding, turns out Elon really did axe the screwworm containment program back in March 25. fucking imbecile www.agri-pulse.com/articles/226...

🚨BREAKING: The American Postal Workers Union (APWU) says it is “deeply alarmed” about the United States Postal Service’s (USPS) new rule created to carry out President Donald Trump’s plans for restricting mail-in voting. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Only the best judges. This is a 9th circuit federal judge from Idaho Falls, nominated by Trump. Judge Nelson, the one in this video, has always been a tool. Here he is on video swiping glasses off someone's face and then stomping on them.

This Day in Labor History: June 6, 1844. George Williams founded the Young Men’s Christian Association in London. The YMCA would later become a critical ally in the corporate fight against radical unionization and the initial date of its founding is a good excuse to discuss this history!

Last week, a new red panda arrived at the Oregon Zoo: Enoki, an almost-3-year-old teddy bear come to life. Read more at www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

It does Democrats absolutely no good to talk about Platner. He is best forgotten as a horrible, obvious mistake.

The Trump administration is proposing a new rule that would subject Americans' retirement accounts to substantial risk, all of which would be borne by the individual. We must never let private equity and crypto scammers gamble with Americans’ retirement savings!

A message on CBS News from WGAE President Tom Fontana

@mikiesherrill.bsky.social you are an embarrassment and lack moral clarity.

Adults on Medicaid will be required to work 80 hours per month. The Trump administration says people who are sick will have to prove they are too sick to work to be exempt from the new work rules. n.pr/3RK4U7X

Roberts Court now engaged in blatant electoral warfare, doing everything it can to give Republicans as many seats as possible in midterms & completely erase Reconstruction amendments. If Dems don’t reform court when back in power there will be no democracy left to protect

This should be *the* story.

"As states seek to slash Black representation and make it impossible for communities of color to elect representatives of their choice, Congress can invoke the guarantee clause as a hook for voting-rights legislation." Read more from @davidhgans.bsky.social in @slate.com: slate.com/news-and-pol...

This is truly one of the worst things the court has done — both in terms of legitimacy and in terms of the law — since I have been covering the court.

“The arbitrary separation of citizens on the basis of race…is a badge of servitude wholly inconsistent with the civil freedom and the equality before the law.” ~Justice John Marshall Harlan, Dissent in Plessy v. Ferguson, 1896. Harlan was born on this day in 1833. Image: Library of Congress.

the current director of national intelligence is a guy who two years ago received a trophy declaring he “Fucks Only The Young” at an (oddly dildo focused) event he organized dedicated to the conspiracy that Bed Bath and Beyond never actually went bankrupt

I have my health insurance license in every state but NY and I helped people sign up through the marketplace last year In order to do so, you must confirm that you have a SSN and provide your tax returns from prior years This assertion is utter bullshit

Since 2000, stored water in those two big buckets, Mead and Powell, has declined from 49 million acre-feet to 16 million acre-feet as of May. Of that, 9 million lies at elevations below the lowest outlets. These are called dead pools.

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Congressional statute: "There is a Director of National Intelligence who shall be appointed by the President ... Any individual nominated for appointment as Director of National Intelligence shall have extensive national security expertise." 50 U.S. Code § 3023

"In an interview with a far-right website ahead of the summit, Bovino — referenced Nazi Germany’s lead general Erwin Rommel as an inspirational figure and offered his help to end what he described as a “creeping horror,” echoing racist terms used by far-right extremists to describe migrants."

This is a very apt way of putting it: the problem with the Constitution of 1789 isn't so much that it's flawed (it surely is, but you can fix flaws with amendments) But rather that it has lapsed, that it is in abeyance

subtle.

This is the destruction of federal funding for scientific research & universities as we know it. A total, comprehensive politicization of the process & an end run around Congress.

Thanks to Boise State Public Radio for covering our strike. This is a warning shot - McClatchy needs to come to the table with a real offer.